I took this picture shortly before my birthday at the Chapter's on Rideau Street:

European Cooking
I was looking for a copy of Ferran Adria's "A Day at El Bulli" to poke through.

Apologies for the blurriness. I had to snap this picture quickly as Chapters' employees, with good reason, do not look kindly upon cameras in their store. However, you should be able to make out books on South American, Creole, and Mexican cuisines...

Particulars:
Chapters
47 Rideau Street
(613)241-0073

Right now, I'm finding Twitter a little wonky. Ever since Monday (March 16, 2009), I've been having problems making tweets "stick." When I post something, it disappears, so I tweet again. Afterward, both appear. When I go to delete the duplicate, the undeleted one disappears. Now things randomly appear and disappear.

I opened a ticket with the powers that be this morning. No one has responded. Though, there's this fancy new AJAX-ified widget at the bottom of my timeline when I login on twitter.com. It allows me to discover misplaced tweets and responses in style...Sigh!

Anyhow, my better half found this really cool website, called Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen that tracks the progress of restaurants profiled on both the UK and US versions of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares television show. That's the program that 9 year old Felix Light parodied for Caterer.com.


Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen

I don't want the link lost as I found myself spending 2 hours on the site looking up restaurants I remembered from the earlier British episodes. A lot of time and energy was spent on compiling information on this site. Apparently, restaurants that are profiled on the show have a 50:50 chance of survival.

Go check it out! It's great.

PS: Wherever did they find a picture of Chef Ramsay so young???